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There are no facts, only interpretations. from Nietzsche's Nachlass, A. Danto translation.", "Enemies of truth.-- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.483, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.-- Every word is a prejudice. from Nietzsche's The Wanderer and his Shadows. 55, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "Man and things.-- Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things. from Nietzsche's Daybreak, s. 483, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "Mystical explanations.-- Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial. from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.126, Walter Kaufmann transl.", "Metaphysical world.-- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off. from Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human, s.9, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "Just beyond experience!-- Even great spirits have only their five fingers breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.from Nietzsche's Daybreak, s. 564, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "WTruth.-- No one now dies of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.516, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.265, Walter Kaufmann transl.", "Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things. from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s. 16, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable. from Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols, ch.3, s.6, Walter Kaufmann transl.", "We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error. from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.121, Walter Kaufmann transl.", "Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men! from Nietzsche's Daybreak, s. 20, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "Suspicious.-- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality? from Nietzsche's Daybreak, s. 101, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second. from Nietzsche's The Wanderer and his Shadow, s. 323, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "Truth as Circe.-- Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal? from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.519, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "In the stream.-- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.541, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "Anti-theses.-- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. -- In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun. from Nietzsche's Assorted Opinions and Maxims, s. 385, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "Not enough!-- It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly! from Nietzsche's Daybreak, s. 330, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "Gardener and garden.-- Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him! from Nietzsche's Daybreak, s. 382, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "The vain.-- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves. from Nietzsche's Daybreak, s. 385, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind! from Nietzsche's Daybreak, s. 563, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "The most dangerous party member.-- In every party there is one who through his all too credulous avowal of the party's principles incites the others to apostasy. from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s. 298, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "The most dangerous follower.-- The most dangerous follower is he whose defection would destroy the whole party: that is to say, the best follower. from Nietzsche's The Wanderer and his Shadow, s. 290, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "Not too deep.-- People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see. from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.489, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "Punishment.-- A strange thing, our kind of punishment! It does not cleanse the offender, it is no expiation: on the contrary, it defiles more than the offense itself. from Nietzsche's Daybreak, s. 236, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "Love-matches.-- Marriages contracted from love (so-called love-matches) have error for their father and need for their mother. from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.389, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "Friendship with women.-- Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy. from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.390, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "Masks.-- There are women who, however you may search them, prove to have no content but are purely masks. The man who associates with such almost spectral, necessarily unsatisfied beings is to be commiserated with, yet it is precisely they who are able to arouse the desire of the man most strongly: he seeks for her soul -- and goes on seeking. from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.405, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "Remedium amoris.-- The cure for love is still in most cases that ancient radical medicine: love in return. from Nietzsche's Daybreak, s. 415, R.J. Hollingdale transl.", "Forbidden generosity.-- There is not enough love and goodness in the world for us to be permitted to give any of it away to imaginary things. from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.129, R.J. Hollingdale transl." ); function randomSaying() { // generate random # between 1 and last entry in array var choice = getRandom(1, wiseSayings.length - 1); var msg = wiseSayings[choice]; // select that random message document.write(msg); // insert it in message } //-->